Atheism Quotes

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

No man is above the law.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

There are no atheist in foxholes.

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

When we begin to see the equality of our biology then our ideology is exposed,

Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men

Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie

Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in